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- John Ridley’s abandoned Marvel TV show for ABC was originally intended to be an Eternals series, but it never progressed.
- Ridley’s version of The Eternals will be “a really weird story” and allow for more characterization.
- Unlike Ridley’s planned TV show, the Eternals movie faces the challenge of introducing a large number of unfamiliar characters in a short period of time.
When John Ridley’s Marvel Cinematic Universe TV show for ABC was revealed in 2015, he revealed which characters he was developing the show around.Prior to streaming MCU TV shows on Disney+, ABC was one of the primary destinations for Marvel series, including Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and agent carter. Ridley has been developing a mysterious Marvel Cinematic Universe TV show for several years, said to be a reinvention of a Marvel property. However, it never moved forward.
After several years of not hearing anything about the Marvel Universe TV show he’s working on, Ridley finally revealed to ABC what his project is about.during an appearance comic club During the podcast, Ridley confirmed that this was actually a Eternals He shared the following about the TV show he was developing before it became an MCU Phase 4 movie:
What are they going to do, fire me for a job I don’t do? [It is] No longer in progress [but] It’s a TV version of The Eternals, but a good one.It’s nice to have my version, a good version I… It doesn’t make any sense.There is a version [Marvel] What I ended up doing… I don’t think that version was particularly good – I’ll be honest – for a variety of reasons.
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How John Ridley’s Eternals show differs from Marvel Cinematic Universe movies
if Eternals As an ABC television series, Ridley went on to explain that it was originally “A very strange story about these people.” According to Ridley, Eternals The pilot would open with a teenager putting a power drill to his ear and pushing it in, which in itself is a weird way to start a new show.In terms of how many episodes, if Eternals Given the show’s obscurity, ABC has ordered 13 episodes.
Although only Ridley knows everything Eternals The TV show’s story goes into great detail, and his series will likely flesh out these characters more, too.One of the big questions Eternals One of the highlights of the movie is that it introduces the audience to a whole host of characters they’ve never seen before, which is something to take in, to say the least. Typically, in most Marvel Cinematic Universe projects, there’s an established character from another movie or TV series who serves as the audience’s eyes and ears when it comes to learning about a new hero or villain.
Eternals 2 Marvel has yet to make an official announcement, and it’s unclear when these characters will next appear in the MCU.
Although Eternals That’s probably not going to happen at ABC, but it’ll be interesting to see what Ridley plans to do with these characters before the MCU movie premieres.Time will tell if Ridley shares more specific plot details about his story Eternals TV show. Hopefully Ridley will get another chance in Marvel Studios’ Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Source: Comic Club